Clark Ashton Smith

Person · Open Library

Born

13 Jan 1893

Died

14 Aug 1961

Works

159

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Film & TV

Acting

Known for

• Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams — Self (archive sound)2018

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1893

Active to

1961

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

149

Total plays

1,334

Clark Ashton Smith (13 January 1893 – 14 August 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 48,686x

2. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

   · 1956 · cited 42,310x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,562x

4. Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

   · 1988 · cited 29,303x

5. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

   · 2015 · cited 25,387x

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Quotes

• “Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;I crown me with the million-colored sunOf secret worlds incredible, and takeTheir trailing skies for vestment when I soar,Throned on the mounting zenith, and illumeThe spaceward-flown horizons infinite.”
• “Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.”
• “But here, in this place of eternal bareness and solitude, it seemed that life could never have been. The stark, eroded stones were things that might have been reared by the toil of the dead, to house the monstrous ghouls and demons of primal desolation.”
• “For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.”
• “Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”
• “Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Smith

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of death

Pacific Grove

Occupation

translator

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

horror literature

Official website

www.eldritchdark.com

Image

Clark Ashton Smith 1912.jpg

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